A Nice Cuppa

I was wandering around one of Oakland???s big tourist traps, Jack London Square. The main strip of stores and restaurants are mostly chains and less than exciting. Pizza Uno, Starbucks inside the Barnes and Noble, Subway, nothing that can???t be found in any suburban shopping center. And like most coffee drinkers out […]

The food industry has been abuzz in a major way lately about green tea. It seems everyone from Coca-Cola, to Lipton, to Snapple, to Starbucks and countless companies in between is jumping on the green tea bandwagon. But it looks like white tea might just start a craze pretty soon too. White […]

I’ve been on a bit of a food-lit kick over the last couple of months, so when I finished up my last one, Real Food by Nina Planck, I wasn’t sure where to go next. Then I stumbled upon The Devil’s Cup, a quick read on the history of coffee.

“Devil’s Cup” (Stewart Lee Allen)

In it, […]

I???m not a big tea drinker. I dig the herbal tea when I???m feeling ill, but standard black tea was never my thing. A friend introduced me to Chai Spiced tea a few years ago, and that was tasty, but I realized that I was pouring so much sugar into the drink; it was […]

I???ve been waiting for my green coffee place to send me a nice fat bag of Ethiopian Yirgacheffe, quite possibly the best coffee ever, but seeing as the Yirgacheffe is out of season right now, I was happy to have the Djimmah instead. My coffee preferences run to Africa and Asian as opposed to South […]

I stumbled upon these little treats in a cute little cafe in Hannibal, Missouri called Java Jive (reported to be the first coffee shop west of the Missisippi.) These Java Pop lollipops, in an assortment of coffee-related flavors like Chocolate Raspberry, Cappuccino, Irish Creme, French Vanilla and Chocolate Almond, are like a cup of International […]

West Oakland is not exactly hopping. The nearest place to get a cup of coffee is the mini-mart around the corner. Not exactly my idea of a decent cup of coffee. (More often than not the brew is so old and tasteless, that when you have no other options, you find yourself […]

I had to make a health food store run yesterday to stock up the pantry. My favorite, Mama Jean’s Natural Market, is a bit of a drive for me so when I’m there I usually peruse the aisles much like I wander joyously through the library on a Saturday morning. At both places, […]

Cadbury Schweppes has just introduced a new line of Snapple Green Tea drinks. Snapple touts the drinks as “a collection of authentic green tea beverages that contain the natural antioxidant EGCG, which is said to help boost metabolism.” The drinks boast 55mg of EGCG (Epigallocatechin gallate), which is naturally found in green tea and plays […]

No, I didn’t leave my latte in the freezer. Okay, well I sort of did - I left my Starbucks Low Fat Latte ice cream in the freezer. You can bet it won’t stay there for long though, it’s that good.
In general, I’m not a big consumer of ice cream. […]